Iraq to award oil contracts to foreign firms

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:46 AM EDT

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Iraq will award contracts to 41 foreign oil firms in a bid to boost production that could give multinationals a potentially lucrative foothold in huge but underdeveloped oil fields, an official said on Sunday.

"We chose 35 companies of international standard, according to their finances, environment and experience, and we granted them permission to extract oil," oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told AFP.

Six other state-owned oil firms from Algeria, Angola, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam will also be awarded extraction deals, Jihad said.

The agreements, to be signed on June 30, are expected to be short-term arrangements although the ministry has yet to provide a timeframe. The deal paves the way for global energy giants to return to Iraq 36 years after late dictator Saddam Hussein chased them out, and is seen as a first step to access the earth's third largest proven crude reserves.

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Iraq seems to getting back on track and got for them too. There's a lot more positive news coming from there. It's also starting to fly in the face of those claiming, and still do claim, that the Iraq war was merely a war for oil. There's still not much tangible evidence of that.

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